Domain Overview (Scope)

The Patient Care Device Domain is concerned with use cases in which at least one actor is a regulated patient-centric point-of-care medical device that communicates with at least one other actor such as a medical device or information system.

The PCD domain coordinates with and supports other domains, such as Radiology (medical imaging), Laboratory, and Cardiology to ensure consistency in use cases involving regulated medical devices as they occur throughout the Enterprise.

PCD Vision Statement

The IHE Patient Care Device Domain (IHE PCD) is the nexus for vendors and providers to jointly define and demonstrate unambiguous interoperability specifications, called profiles, which are based on industry standards, and which can be brought to market.

PCD Mission Statement

The IHE Patient Care Device Domain, working with regional and national deployment committees, will apply the proven, Use Case driven IHE processes to:

List of Commercially available PCD systems Commercially Available Systems provides a list of vendors and their available systems that have successfully passed the test requirements for IHE conformance.

The IHE Product Registry Link provides a list of IHE compliant systems that have published Conformance Statements.

Getting Started

If you are new to either IHE or the Patient Care Device domain, the PCD Getting Started page provides the historical and background information about that domain that will help you determine the best place to plug into their project activities. In addition PCD Overviewoutlines the current activies of the Domain.